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Having problems with your Sony VAIO VGN-FJ270/B Notebook ?

Sony Fj270 upgraded to vista ultimate, now cannot restore among other things.

\015 I upgraded my Sony FJ270 laptop from XP Pro to Vista Ultimate. Vista made my fn keys stop working and also now i cannot use the restore feature.\015\012\015\012I have a restore disk and when I try to use it it says something along the lines of:\015\012\015\012"Cannot use this disk to restore computer, please verify your model.".\015\012\015\012I really just want to restore my operating system back to xp because vista is eating up my performance.\015\012\015\012Any assistance is much appreciated.\015\012\015\012\015\012Sincerely,\015\012\015\012Chris\015

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OK YOU NEED A DISK WIPE/ HARD DRIVE WIPE THERE ARE A TONE OF THEM ON EBAY FOR GOOD PRICES BUT MAKESHURE THAT YOU GET THE ONES ON DISK NOT A DOWNLOAD OR USE THE INSTAL DISK FROM THE WIN VISTA AND FOLOW THE STEPS AS BOOT FROM THE DISK AND FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS UNTILL YOU GET TO THE PARTITION SPOT, THERE YOU JUST NEED TO DEL THE PARTITION AND THEN CLOSE THE INSTAL, EJECT THE DISK , REBOOT , AND BOOT FROM YOUR WIN XP DISK AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS FROM THERE ON

SEE WINDOWS WONT LET YOU INSTALL A PREVIOUS VERSION OF ITS SELF BUT I WOULD USE A WIPE DISK SO YOU DONT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ANY "BLADING" OF DATA

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